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Cerbesii

Κερβήσιοι

Eth. Cerbesii (Eth. Κερβήσιοι), a Phrygian tribe mentioned in a verse of Alcman, quoted by Strabo (p. 580), but the people were unknown in Strabo's time. He mentions also a hole or chasm, called Cerbesius, which emitted pestilential vapours; but he does not say where it is.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.